Stilslo
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After a minor(40ish mph) lowside, I took away a few things....
1. Parts are expensive. After careful shopping I have most stuff on the way. Left side fairings, nose fairing, mirror, stator cover, new levers, and helmet visor ran me about $1,200. That does not include scraped exhaust(might let that go for now), rear light pod(small scuff I'm going to try and fix), broken rear set, and my $250.00 jacket.
2. I need to find a track to have fun on. I always leave a little on the table, but even running at 80% on public roads is stupid. I have had a Saturday night ritual for some time now. I watch riding videos or read books like twist of the wrist and than go out early Sunday morning and find the best road I can to practice what I went over the night before. There is just to many variables on the street to do this safe. Cars, animals, little bit of sand in the middle of the corner, whatever.
3. Think about other people besides myself. Kinda goes along with #2. My fiance would not talk to me the rest of the day. She wasn't mad because I wrecked. I was in a desolate area riding the bike like I was on a racetrack. Had I seriously injured myself I could have gone all day without anybody seeing me or knowing where I was.
4. Get the right tire for my style of riding. I still have a hard time putting any blame on my new PR2's because I've ridden with Mike(sportscustoms71) a lot and he has them on his bike and he is a very aggresive rider. Maybe the S20's I had on before just covered my rider flaws enough in the corners, but I still can't figure out why I went down and it bugs me. I was concentrating hard on body postition and throttle controll thru the corners, but that rear end came around out of nowhere. There was a little sand in the corner and I've hit gravel in corners with the S20's, but I could stay on the gas and the rear would slide a bit then grip and go.
5. Gear saved me a scrubbing in the hospitol. Been there done that, glad I was geared up. I will say mesh jackets do not offer a lot of protection. My leather pants are a little scuffed, but my jacket is shredded. It's a combo textile/mesh joe rocket/suzuki jacket and anywhere I slid on a mesh part, it came apart. The only marks I had on my body were protected by mesh.
6. And last, this is a great site with some awesome members. The Org. is invaluable for searching for how to fixes and finding parts. Thanks to all those that answered my q's and helped me find the stuff to get up and running again.
1. Parts are expensive. After careful shopping I have most stuff on the way. Left side fairings, nose fairing, mirror, stator cover, new levers, and helmet visor ran me about $1,200. That does not include scraped exhaust(might let that go for now), rear light pod(small scuff I'm going to try and fix), broken rear set, and my $250.00 jacket.
2. I need to find a track to have fun on. I always leave a little on the table, but even running at 80% on public roads is stupid. I have had a Saturday night ritual for some time now. I watch riding videos or read books like twist of the wrist and than go out early Sunday morning and find the best road I can to practice what I went over the night before. There is just to many variables on the street to do this safe. Cars, animals, little bit of sand in the middle of the corner, whatever.
3. Think about other people besides myself. Kinda goes along with #2. My fiance would not talk to me the rest of the day. She wasn't mad because I wrecked. I was in a desolate area riding the bike like I was on a racetrack. Had I seriously injured myself I could have gone all day without anybody seeing me or knowing where I was.
4. Get the right tire for my style of riding. I still have a hard time putting any blame on my new PR2's because I've ridden with Mike(sportscustoms71) a lot and he has them on his bike and he is a very aggresive rider. Maybe the S20's I had on before just covered my rider flaws enough in the corners, but I still can't figure out why I went down and it bugs me. I was concentrating hard on body postition and throttle controll thru the corners, but that rear end came around out of nowhere. There was a little sand in the corner and I've hit gravel in corners with the S20's, but I could stay on the gas and the rear would slide a bit then grip and go.
5. Gear saved me a scrubbing in the hospitol. Been there done that, glad I was geared up. I will say mesh jackets do not offer a lot of protection. My leather pants are a little scuffed, but my jacket is shredded. It's a combo textile/mesh joe rocket/suzuki jacket and anywhere I slid on a mesh part, it came apart. The only marks I had on my body were protected by mesh.
6. And last, this is a great site with some awesome members. The Org. is invaluable for searching for how to fixes and finding parts. Thanks to all those that answered my q's and helped me find the stuff to get up and running again.
I'll buy the bar end from you though.
